The old man in front of him was kind and didn't have the imposing aura of a high-ranking person. While he was speaking, the armored woman who had her back to the door turned around and looked at him curiously. Hao Ren He found that this was a woman much younger than he expected. She looked about twenty-five years old, with fair skin and a very beautiful appearance, but there was a faint heroic spirit in her facial features, as if she had been through battles for a long time. It's not an empty shelf with a beautiful appearance.
Becky felt a little nervous instinctively when she saw a big man, she quickly folded her hands in front of her chest, made a special gesture and then bowed deeply, her voice was all stiff: "Hi, Your Excellency, Rector, I am Becky, and I am the second A super mercenary, from Lumber Town, that... ah, there is an important intelligence report!"
"Don't be nervous, I heard," the rector of Girton waved his hand to signal to Becky that there is no need to be polite. He glanced at the people behind Becky curiously, and found that these people were neither saluting nor nervous, but With a subtle sense of alienation, he couldn't help but look a few more times, but he didn't say anything about it, he just turned to Becky and said to the point, "You just came down from the mountain? Know about those giants ?”
Becky nodded quickly: "Yes... yes! We saw that they were split from a mountain peak south of the ancient mountain road!" Although Becky usually seemed carefree and fearless, she was a commoner after all, and she was an opponent. Yao sect has a deep-rooted sense of awe among civilians. It was the first time in her life that she saw a big man of the level of the rector, and she couldn't escape, so she hurriedly told the old man in front of her what she saw in the mountains. And mentioned the previous battle at the eastern foot of the mountain range.
"Have you dealt with the three stone giants? It seems very capable," the old man looked at Hao Ren's motley crew who didn't even have weapons or armor. From these people, he couldn't feel much of the evil spirit belonging to warriors, and they didn't even look like skilled mercenaries, but this group of people could quickly find a way to kill that difficult stone giant when they first came into contact with them, which made him He was surprised, "Are you also a mercenary group?"
Lily jumped up on the spot: "A good name makes a dog a servant..."
Hao Ren had already pushed the girl down immediately, but she was still unable to turn the tide. Lily's actions were too powerful.
The old rector sighed: "The mercenaries now... are getting more and more outrageous. How many silver hands, silver fists, and silver eyes when I was young are now rare names. Young people these days really deserve their names. It’s too insignificant." "Just now we saw the situation outside the town," Vivienne didn't want to get entangled in this topic, and took the initiative to divert everyone's attention, "There was also an attack here? How is the situation?"
"The knights suffered some casualties in the two attacks, but after finding out the weakness of the giants, they were successfully repulsed." The old man did not hide the situation here, and gave a general account of what happened this afternoon. Only then did I realize that the stone giants attacked the small town at the foot of the mountain as soon as they split off from the cliff. And attacked twice in a row.
The first attack happened three hours ago, about an hour after the loud noise came from the mountain, a dozen stone giants rushed out from the mountain road in front of the town, and most of the Cavaliers' casualties were in the generated during the first attack. The powerful combat capabilities of those monsters are second to none. The most difficult thing is that they can continuously regenerate as long as they touch the ground. At the beginning, no one knew this, and there was no fierce man like Yizaks who could fiddle with the stone giants back and forth to study their weaknesses. town field. Therefore, the Knights went through a hard fight, but finally repelled the stone giant's attack after paying a certain amount of casualties.
The second attack happened an hour ago. Not long before Hao Ren and the others arrived in the town, there were still a dozen stone giants rushing out of the mountain path. However, due to preparations, this offensive was easily disintegrated.
"The situation was so sudden that it almost caused those monsters to rush into the town," the rector said in a deep voice. "Fortunately, this is the last checkpoint before the Holy Land, and there are many knights stationed all year round, so nothing major happened."
"According to the time calculation, those stone giants should have rushed towards the town after splitting from the cliff," the young woman who had been talking to the rector before had not spoken, and she spoke at this time, her voice was calm and magnetic , "Your Excellency the Rector, what do you think of this matter?"
The rector lowered his head in thought for a moment, and then slowly opened his mouth: "The Dragon's Back Mountain Range is a blasphemy built by the arrogant magic emperor in ancient times. Every stone on this mountain range is a challenge to the authority of the goddess. What happened in it All visions should be attributed to evil motives, and those stone giants split from the mountains are undoubtedly full of evil—I think their target should not be this level, but... the holy lake of Beinz."
"I think so too," the woman nodded, "The orb of the temple disappeared, there was a change in the holy lake, and then monsters appeared in the Longji Mountains, and these monsters are now trying to attack the holy lake—this series of events is A clear, calculated provocation."
The rector was silent. He didn't like the two obvious words "offense" and "provocation", but the facts in front of him made it difficult for him to make a strong rebuttal, so he could only nod in the end: "Perhaps the ancient times Those sinful souls have not yet given up, they are brewing something... "
The armored woman said word by word: "Eloken has declared war on the goddess, Your Excellency the Rector."
“It is too early to call this a jihad,” the rector seemed to insist. “The authority of the goddess is not so easily challenged.”
"But the ancient magic emperors did succeed in provoking once—we have to deal with them before they provoke a second time, otherwise it's hard to guarantee whether the goddess will get angry a second time."
The rector was silent for a longer time this time, and finally he could only wave his hands helplessly: "...Your Excellency Ophra, please remember that certain things are taboo and should not be mentioned frequently near the holy lake. Even if there is no temple orb, the goddess is the same You can know what happened in this world. Well, I will consider opening the coffin, but at least three months later, I hope you can report this to His Majesty the King."
"It's a wise move." The woman named Ophra nodded, then suddenly remembered that there were other people present, and smiled slightly apologetically at Hao Ren and the others, "I'm sorry, I was busy arguing and neglected you."
Hao Ren was confused by what he heard, and he was still in a daze at this moment, while Becky jumped up in surprise: "Wait...wait! Your Excellency Ophra?! You you...you..."
Ofra crossed her arms, seeming to find Becky's reaction amused: "I'm Ofra, Marshal of the Kingdom, what's wrong?"
Betsy thought for a while, then fainted with a slap.
Nangong Wuyue stood the closest, and quickly helped the mercenary girl up. Becky opened her eyes dizzily, and saw the heroic and legendary heroine still standing in front of her, so she was about to faint again. Fortunately, this time, Nangong Wuyue hit her face with a water polo covered with ice balls before she passed out.
"Are you so surprised?" Ofra smiled heartily, "I've seen many interesting guys, but this is the first time I've seen such a violent reaction."
"I, I... I adore you!" Becky jumped up and wanted to pounce, but halfway through the posture, she retracted her hand nervously, made a nondescript stand at attention, and then began to bow and salute, "Your Excellency Marshal... Uh no, Your Majesty... Uh no, Your Majesty..."...
"Don't be like this, I'm not a royal family, nor a lord." Ofra smiled and waved her hands away from her body, as if the address of His Majesty made her very embarrassed, "I heard your name just now, it's Becky, right? A lot of words, you have made a lot of contributions this time, and you are an excellent mercenary."
Hao Ren couldn't bear it anymore, he came behind Becky and asked in a low voice, "By the way, who is this?"
"Why don't you even know this?!" Becky stared at Hao Ren as if seeing a monster, and then remembered that this is a "mage from the Northern Empire", but it was still a little inconceivable, "The Horner Empire should also know Marshal Ofrah, one of the three kings of the Kingdom, a heroine known throughout the continent! You are too ignorant."
"It's not that exaggerated." Ophra smiled, and she looked approachable now, not at all the aggressive look she had when she was arguing with the rector just now. "I just happened to go through a lot of things."
Then she turned to the rector: "Your Excellency, I will take my leave first. I will let my knights be responsible for the night defense. Tomorrow we will discuss in detail how to deal with the monsters that come out of the mountains—if the information of these mercenaries To be precise, what we have to face is not just the twenty or so rock giants."